Sentences with phrase «sly sense»

The film also has a tremendously sly sense of humor.

But a certain sly sense of fun has loosened up things.

Bryson's wonderfully sly sense of humor and narrative skill are evident in this expansive look at a momentous season in U.S. history: the summer of 1927.

or the ultimate victim («The Big Heat»), her parts are often informed by her playful intelligence and sly sense of humor.

A sly sense of humor is never inappropriate... it's what's being said, n'est ce pas?

What makes it so much fun is the sly sense of humor and the numerous in - jokes hidden in the backgrounds.

It's more playful and comic, with a reluctant hero who has a motley crew of buddies and a mentor with a sly sense of humor as well as justice, and while the stakes a big (stopping a tech giant from weaponizing experimental technology and it to the bad guys), it's not the world - shaking battleground of The Avengers or Thor or Iron Man movies.

Fool's gold: Corneliu Porumboiu's minimalist hunt draws out its mysteries with a sly sense of comedy

In Lonesome Jim he doesn't act, and instead directs a dream - come - true indie cast in this minimalist comedy with a sly sense of humor that isn't always readily apparent.

His performance here showcases his best qualities (affable, sly sense of humor) without forcing him to do anything too showy, and it makes for a perfect combination of actor and role.

It has been a banner year for smart and fun comic book movie adaptations, and the reason those three films worked as well as they did is they had a sly sense of humor and didn't take themselves so deadly seriously as Justice League does.

The crystalline deliberation of the framing, the heightened eloquence of the dialogue, a particularly surreal shout - out to Andrei Tarkovsky's «The Sacrifice» — there is beauty and grandeur in these aesthetic gestures, but also a sly sense of mischief, as if Schrader were treating his cherished transcendental cinema as the vehicle for some grand postmodern joke.

The latter is especially interesting as it showcases the film with a sly sense of irony.

Takashi Miike's film is a work of robust genre craftsmanship that's informed with a sly sense of self - interrogation.

«What was apparent in the first meeting was that she was very smart, very strong, with a wry, sly sense of humor and built out of integrity,» he told The Post in December.

There's little to be gleaned from recounting the particulars of the story that Lahiff spins, as you've seen it all before, but the filmmaker stages his various atrocities with a sly sense of humor that renders the proceedings remarkably palatable.

Darkfever is masterfully rendered, a dark and sexy fantasy featuring a Buffy of the Fae, with a sly sense of humor and maturity of handling that's a delight to read.

It also helps establish the aesthetics which would set Phantasy Star apart from other RPG series and make it SEGA's longest running franchise, period: a gameworld featuring multiple, distinct planets; epic character - driven sagas grounded with a sly sense of anime humor; a preoccupation with genetically modified races and the racial conflict that emerges between those races; and a mesh of high technology and swords - and - sorcery.

The platforming was extremely challenging but in an organic way (you always felt in control, and like the difficulty was part of the game instead of fighting the controls), the power ups were fun, but — more than anything — the game had a sly sense of humor and a silly streak, something that extended to Sega's entire 90s attitude, especially if you saw any of the commercials from that decade.

With its multitudes of everyday items as weapons, enormous numbers of on - screen zombies, and sly sense of humour, it was a flawed but memorable title that did well enough to spawn follow - ups of various sizes.

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Her contribution to the exhibition includes sweaters with hand - knit political jokes and riddles, as well as «cover girl» self - portrait photographs featuring the artist in deadpan poses revealing the artist's sly sense of humor.

His personality is iridescent, shifting rapidly yet gracefully from a serious man weathered by worldly experience to a sage with a sly sense of humor.

Her contribution to the exhibition includes sweaters with hand - knit political jokes and riddles, as well as «cover girl» self - portrait photographs featuring the artist in deadpan poses revealing the her sly sense of humor.

Simple, playful, and with a sly sense of humor, Breuning's small figures inhabit a world of plain colors and little ornamentation.

His work is also inherently autobiographical, balanced by a sly sense of irony and humor, which allows the viewer to identify with his imagery.

Sometimes infused with a sly sense of humor, Pierson's work is inherently autobiographical; often using his friends as his models and referencing traditional Americana motifs, his bright yet distanced imagery reveals the undercurrents of the uncanny in the quotidian.

Coupled with a sly sense of humor, he shrewdly claws at the grand pillars of bourgeois culture: art history, literature and philosophy.

The Smiths have a sly sense of humour and always cause one to question art and elitism.

She has a sly sense of humour and these delightful, sparkly blue eyes.